Comment les Parisiens se lavaient au Moyen Âge (1400)

It's often believed that men in the Middle Ages never washed. This is false. In Paris in 1400, public bathhouses—those heated public baths—were so numerous that there were dozens throughout the city, open to almost every social class. In this historical immersion, discover how 15th-century Parisians cared for their bodies on a daily basis: the rituals of bathing in steaming bathhouses, the role of the barber-surgeon who shaved, bled, and treated wounds, the medicinal herbs used to perfume the water, and the stark differences in hygiene between the wealthy bourgeois and the poor artisan in the muddy alleyways. Were people really dirty in the Middle Ages? Who washed, how, and at what cost? Settle in comfortably and let medieval Paris of 1400 surprise you.